First Posted: 2/16/2015
To the editor:
This is in response to Billy Wilson’s letter on Hebrew letters. We, mankind, have lost the understanding of the Hebrew mindset, context, meaning and idioms of ancient times.
The Tanakh, or Old Testament, was written in Paleo-Hebrew script. Hebrew was almost a dead language, but many in Israel and worldwide are once again learning Hebrew, and it is now a thriving and a live language. They, in ancient times, wrote and spoke Hebrew, as well as Aramaic.
When the Savior of the world was hung on that tree a sign was hung above Him, written in Hebrew, Greek, and in Roman (Latin). On the road to Damascus, Paul was spoken to, by the Savior, in the Hebrew language, but we seem to have forgotten that. Is not the Savior a Hebrew, born into the tribe of Judah? Was not Paul a Jew, a Pharisee, a Rabbi, a son of a Pharisee? Weren’t the Savior’s disciples and early followers Hebrew?
We need to turn back and begin looking at Scripture from the Hebrew mindset. The Greek mindset is focused on education whereas the Hebrew mindset is focused on practice. Right conduct is the concern of the Hebrew. Greek education is to prepare people to serve the state, Hebrew education is to prepare people to serve the Almighty.
We need a Hebrew mindset, not a Greek mindset which has been passed down to us through the Greek, Latin and then the English language.
Ernest Andrews
Hamlet